water chestnut plant

Questions about water chestnut plant

What does water chestnut plant mean?

water chestnut plant means "a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits".

What is another word for water chestnut plant?

Close synonyms include water chestnut, caltrop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is water chestnut plant a common word?

water chestnut plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.